ledger

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On the other side of the ledger are liabilities, including deposits that banks maintain at the Fed known as “reserves.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

The SFC looked at the other side of the ledger, and the limits of increasing income tax.

From BBC • Feb. 26, 2026

One ledger of yellowing pages vividly evokes the cases of patients from 1919, the year after the end of World War I.

From Barron's • Feb. 4, 2026

Like Aleys, Alouette forms alliances with other women, Sylvine and Marguerite, the latter of whom carefully documents the guards’ abuses in a ledger.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2026

She makes a strange, shocked sound, and notes it in a ledger book.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton